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1864 Dacca Municipality (later Dhaka City Corporation) was established.
Google | 1905 Dhaka became the capital of the new province, Eastern Bengal and Assam, under British Raj.
Google | 1982 The name of the Bangladesh capital in English will henceforth be spelt as 'Dhaka' instead of 'Dacca' as decided at a meeting of the Council of Ministers with Chief Martial Law Administrator (CMLA) Hussain Muhammad Ershad (Lt General) in the chair. The changed spelling of the name of the capital in English is phonetically closer to the Bangla pronunciation.
Google | 2011 Dhaka South City Corporation and Dhaka North City Corporation formally starts operation as the two municipal corporations in Dhaka that were created when the former Dhaka City Corporation was divided into two.
Google | 2019 Atiqul Islam elected as the mayor of Dhaka North City Corporation.
Google | 2019 Md Atiqul Islam, businessman and former head of BGMEA, newly elected mayor of Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) takes oath of office.
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